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“I am convinced that the American church has arrived at an impossibly, almost unbearably significant moment of truth.”
With these compelling phrases, radio host Eric Metaxas opens Letter to the American Church, a brand new movie adaptation of his e-book with the identical title. On this documentary, Metaxas and different conservative voices expose America’s rising risk of cultural Marxism.
With concise precision, the movie defines Marxism and traces its all-encompassing roots from Nazi Germany to Russia and China, after which viewers uncover that trendy, woke ideologies are solely twisted variations of traditional Marxism – the identical poison in a unique bundle.
Inspecting the previous
The movie additionally parallels eerie similarities between in the present day’s American church and German church buildings throughout the Nineteen Thirties, when church buildings remained just about silent as Nazism took root and grew.
“The Germans didn’t see it coming,” Metaxas instructed The Stand. “They had been similar to we’re. In 1933, they by no means dreamt the place it was going. Subsequently, the church was silent, silent, silent.
“I saw the parallels so dramatically in recent years in the American church. We’ve drifted away from the truth. We’re not aware of it, and we have to wake up … because the hour is very, very late.”
By means of this movie, Metaxas – together with Charlie Kirk, Rob McCoy, Dr. James Lindsay, Victor and Eileen Marx, and John Okay. Amanchukwu Sr. uncovers the systematic, threefold mission of cultural Marxism in America: Destroy the church, the household, and the economic system.
This up to date Marxist mission has merely assumed new cultural causes to camouflage its agenda inside each side of American society. Accordingly, audio system within the movie elucidate hot-button subjects inside this contemporary agenda. These culturally divisive instruments particularly exploit gender and race by frameworks reminiscent of essential race principle (CRT) and variety, fairness, and inclusion (DEI).
Issuing a name
In comparison with Germany’s timeline of totalitarianism, Metaxas believes the present Marxist mission of American destruction is close to completion – except the church takes an pressing stand.
“I am very, very blunt about this,” Metaxas acknowledged. “We have literally around a year. …We are at the edge of the precipice. We are going over the precipice. If we don’t wake up now, it’s over.”
American church buildings are waking as much as this imminent demise – however not shortly sufficient. Subsequently, screenings of the movie are provided free to church buildings.
“Let me be clear,” warned Metaxas. “We’re in a war, and if enough churches don’t wake up, … at some point, the evil wins, and you’re done.”
America shouldn’t be executed but. However to protect this nation’s godly heritage for the following era, Metaxas says the church have to be salt and lightweight.
“Anybody who calls himself a Christian,” he defined, “that is for them. That is for many who say, ‘I’m a Christian.’ I say, ‘OK! You are the church, and God wanted me to write this for you.’
“The church is always called to come out of the church building and into every single sphere in the culture, to bring God’s values into politics, into culture, into education, into medicine, and into the courts. Everywhere. That is our job.”
To do its essential job, the church should instantly reply the decision to motion resounding all through Letter to the American Church.
(Digital Editor’s Word: This text was revealed first within the June 2024 print version of The Stand. Click on HERE to get a free six-month subscription.)
“Well bless their hearts.”
